can i run a hard drive with a broken pin?

i was pulling out this hard drive from my tivo. i was using both hands, pulling straight out. one hand slipped and i managed to bend 3 pins. i bent them back, but one was already on the verge of breakage and cracked off.
shit.
so, i took a small safety pin a put it in an ide cable. it works fine.

do you think i can run the drive without the cord...or is is it stuck with this special cord?
i've never bent a pin before.
good thing is that i don't really need this drive, because i got my backup off of it and transferred everything onto a new 300 gig seagate.

the hard drive and motherboard manufacturers must have had an evil meeting many years ago, discussing how they will inevitably sell me devices if they have the pins on the device instead of the cord...because a motherboard can have it's ide channel rendered useless because of 1 broken pin.